Rome, Milan and fragments

Here I’m posting a bunch of pictures from different places I’ve been these last months like Rome, Milan and Bracciano.

Rome:

I love this beautiful background illustrated by my friend Chandra Viola. You can see it at Pierrot Le Fou (Via del Boschetto 34 Roma)

favorite jewelry shop in Rome

Thanks Gucci for these presents: “Flora” scarf and the book “Giardini di seta” about his illustrator Vittorio Accornero.

In 1966 Rodolfo Gucci wanted to present Princess Grace of Monaco with a special gift to commemorate her visit to Gucci’s Via Montenapoleone store with her husband, Prince Rainier. He commissioned the artist Vittorio Accornero to create a floral pattern and had it printed on to a silk foulard as a kind of symbolic bouquet.

Vittorio Accornero de Testa was born in 1896 from a noble family. He started to work as an illustrator with several magazines like “Il secolo XX” and “L’illustrazione italiana” and since 1925 he exhibited his works in Paris and New York. In 1960 Rodolfo Gucci ask him to draw floral patterns to print them on silk scarfs. The partnership with Gucci will last until 1981, Accornero will die the next year.